You know, I just realized last night that I've kinda taken on a lot this year. The first thing I did was to plant a very small vinyard, which will take me a great deal of learning to know how to prune and train and care for throughout the years.
Then we got chickens, another learning curve. I know they are still only a little over a week old right now, but still, I've had to learn a lot! AND I already have someone who wants to buy fresh eggs from us! (I'm gonna need more hens!).
These two things along aren't too much, and neither require much daily effort, but what makes it all slightly overwhelming is that I've also taken on bees. I've been interested in keeping a hive for the last few years. I've prayed and prayed that God would provide me with a hive (I didn't think I'd ever be able to save up the $400 to buy a hive and the bees for it) and He did, bees and all. Actually He happened to provide my best friends with a dozen hives, and she knows nothing about beekeeping. She said that if I taught her what I know (which is very little) and help her figure out where to learn more that she would give me a complete hive, bees and all! God is soooo awesome!!!
So, there I was sitting at the PPBKA (Pikes Peak Bee Keepers Association) meeting last night with my friend learning about veroa mites and skunk attacks and pollen patties, and I thought to myself, "Wow, this is a lot of information!" Now, I'm not a perfectionist. I don't intend to keep my bees perfectly so that I "maximize production," but I do want to keep the little suckers alive. So in addition to learning to keep a vinyard, and learning to keep chickens, I am learning to keep bees. Hmm, I just realized that everything I am taking on pertains to food!
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